Extenuating Circumstances

Concepts by Pablo Dominguez
Client: Christopher Paolini - To Sleep in a Sea of Stars
Creative Direction: Finnian MacManus

We had a fantastic time working with celebrated author Christopher Paolini (of the Eragon series) to bring his new book, To Sleep in a Sea of Stars, to life with some worldbuilding ! One of the first tasks was to design the Extenuating Circumstances, one of the main ships in the book.

“The most striking feature of the Extenuating Circumstances was the banks of radiators that lined its midsection, starting directly behind the habitats and continuing all the way down to the swell of the engine. The edges of the diamond fins flashed and gleamed as they caught the light of the sun, and the tubes of molten metal embedded within the fins shone like silver veins.” To Sleep in a Sea of Stars